ATTACHMENT TO PETITION FOR STREET DISCONTINUANCE
Etchstone Properties, Inc., a New Hampshire corporation, with a principal address of 179
Amherst Street, Nashua, New Hampshire 03064 (the “Petitioner”), is hereby petitioning the City
of Nashua, by and through its Board of Aldermen, to discontinue {i) an existing portion of a
street (public right-of-way) described in Exhibit A attached (“Discontinuance Area ‘A’”), which
includes a portion of a road as laid out on January 14, 1799 and another portion of a road for
which no layout or acceptance was found but which is presumed to be public under RSA 229:1,
and (ii) an existing portion of a street (public right-of-way) described in Exhibit B attached
(Discontinuance Area ‘B’”), which includes a portion of a public-right of way as laid out on
November 24, 1847.
Discontinuance Area ‘A’ is a portion of the historic location of Groton Road and abuts a
portion of existing Groton Road, as laid out by the State of New Hampshire’s realignment of
Groton Road in 1937. Discontinuance Area ‘B’ is a public road layout from 1847, which was
likely intended to relocate the historic location of Groton Road, possibly to avoid certain
wetlands and straighten out the “S” curve in the 1799 public road layout, but such 1847 public
road layout was never was built, opened, or used by the public.
In support of its Petition, the Petitioner states as follows:
1, This Petition is filed pursuant to RSA 231:43 and the City of Nashua Revised
Ordinances Chapter 285-23.
2. The Petitioner is the owner of real estate located at 35 Groton Road, Nashua, New
Hampshire (Map D, Lot 23) (“Lot 23”).
3. Discontinuance Area ‘A’ (described by metes and bounds in Exhibit A) is owned
(in fee simple) by Etchstone Properties, Inc. Discontinuance Area ‘A’ abuts Lot 23 and is shown
on a pian of land titled “DISCONTINUANCE PLAN PORTIONS OF THE HISTORIC
